On the morning of July 18, 2019, 30-year-old Jeremiah David Koch of Lenhartsville, Pennsylvania, was found inside a Comfort Inn room on Loch Raven Boulevard in Towson, Maryland, with a gunshot wound to his upper body and was pronounced dead at the scene. Koch had gone to the hotel after a friend summoned him to help de-escalate a volatile situation involving an agitated man identified as 26-year-old Deonte James Griffin of Randallstown.

A witness later said Griffin had been using cocaine and was exhibiting drug-induced psychosis, believing people were trying to harm him. Officers arrived shortly after 2:26 a.m., and Griffin was located nearby and taken into custody. He was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault, and use of a firearm to commit a crime of violence, and held pending a bail review with a preliminary hearing scheduled for August 16, 2019.

If anyone has information about Jeremiah Koch, his activities that night, or the events at the Comfort Inn, please share what is known.